RELG 1641 Lecture Notes - The Atheist Experience, Androgyny, Heterosexuality
29 Apr 2013
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Manning and zuckerberg reading religions as either sex-positive or sex-negative. Observation that sexuality is holistic and connects with religion or that sex and religion are in conflict. Guilt from not having the right kind of sex. Have to learn guilt- masturbation- why prohibit something that is going to happen no matter what can religious communities capitalize on the human condition of guilt?- the possibility of non-spiritual agenda religion as a useful framework for regulation. Division between two sides of human experience- masculine and feminine. Phallus= representing virility, penetration, strength, power, all the things that those who have penises represent: virginity cannot be represented the same way as the phallus.
